Are the Teslas going to park out in front of the theater on Mamaroneck or in back in the parking structure? I personally typically avoid driving my Tesla in downtown White Plains. I thought that Jacob Burns up in Pleasantville would have done something like this by now but I don't think they have.

Chris doesn't really have control on distribution. It's out through several channels; and several are providing it free. I've been to several screenings in my state (I usually do Q&A afterwards) that were free from a PBS affiliate. Hulu had it free for a while. I think it was on a broadcast channel this week. There's another free screening near me tonight; I don't even know who's putting that on, but I'll be there.

The PBS ones were edited down to an hour. The DVD is 90 minutes, plus there's a bunch of bonus footage. For plug-in enthusiasts, it's great stuff. But even non-enthusiasts generally agree it's a really nice documentary about the difficulty of launching a new industry.

An expensive theater up here charges $9 for a movie. Revenge often shows for free to raise public awareness. Or for the theater's normal price. Is this a fund raiser? Or is Chris charging a fee?

Click to expand...

For those of you who didn't click on the link, hcsharp is referring to the fact that the tickets cost $25. Most theaters around here charge over $10 a ticket ($10.50 where I usually go). This particular theater has a "director's hall" with nicer seats whose tickets are usually $14.75. So I am not sure who is pocketing the difference. I had never heard of nyclhvcc but they seem like a reasonable organization with the following mission statement:

"Incorporated in 2007, New York City and Lower Hudson Valley Clean Communities has been tasked with providing support and management skills necessary to advance the regions economic, environmental, and energy security by building local public-private partnerships towards promoting the use of technologies and practices that reduce petroleum consumption throughout New York City and Lower Hudson Valley (Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties)."

Chris doesn't really have control on distribution. It's out through several channels; and several are providing it free. I've been to several screenings in my state (I usually do Q&A afterwards) that were free from a PBS affiliate. Hulu had it free for a while. I think it was on a broadcast channel this week. There's another free screening near me tonight; I don't even know who's putting that on, but I'll be there.

The PBS ones were edited down to an hour. The DVD is 90 minutes, plus there's a bunch of bonus footage. For plug-in enthusiasts, it's great stuff. But even non-enthusiasts generally agree it's a really nice documentary about the difficulty of launching a new industry.

They are setting aside a place on the sidewalk for the Teslas with velvet stanchions!

Click to expand...

First off, thanks to RoadsterWarrior for bring us other owners into this. It was well organised and I enjoyed talking to quite a few people while we were out on the plaza. Michael Sexton brought a twilight blue Roadster from the NY showroom and the red one is Anne's. I was too busy to take many pictures but here's one just to show we were there:

After the mini car show, we got a very cool police escort for our convoy of three Roadsters as we tried to find somewhere to park safely. Here's a picture of us actually parked - definitely qualifies as a mini-rally even though Roadster #4 couldn't make it due to a family emergency (left to right: Michael Sexton, Mrs RoadsterWarrior, Mr RoadsterWarrior)...

I spent some time talking to Chris Paine after the screening and was pleasantly surprised by his sustained enthusiasm for the subject even after a full year of promoting the movie! Unfortunately I got home too late to walk the dog but have redeemed myself today with "bonus walkies". So it all turned out OK in the end.

Looks like the guy in the motorized wheelchair feels right at home amongst all those electric cars!

Click to expand...

I had a brief but very bizarre discussion with him about a character in "Snow Crash" [Neal Stephenson]; the character's name is Ng and the analogy was obvious and entertaining for us. For anyone unfamiliar with that book here is an excerpt. Blessed be google.

"Please excuse my appearance," he says, after a couple of awkward minutes. "My helicopter caught fire during the evacuation of Saigon in 1974-a stray tracer from ground forces."
"Whoa. What a drag."
"I was able to reach an American aircraft carrier off the coast, but you know, the fuel was spraying around quite a bit during the fire."
"Yeah, I can imagine, uh huh."
"I tried prostheses for a while-some of them are very good. But nothing is as good as a motorized wheelchair. And then I got to thinking, why do motorized wheelchairs always have to be tiny pathetic things that strain to go up a little teeny ramp? So I bought this-it is an airport firetruck from Germany-and converted it into my new motorized wheelchair."
"It's very nice."
"America is wonderful because you can get anything on a drive-through basis. Oil change, liquor, banking, car wash, funerals, anything you want-drive through. So this vehicle is much better than a tiny pathetic wheelchair. It is an extension of my body."